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Competing against a gray rectangle is easy
The loveliness of just abou7t anyone else's browser is partly down to what we have to compare them against. Internet Explorer is such a dull old broken gray rectangle of a thing. In many ways, it has become the new Netscape 4 of web development. A welter of daft proprietary hacks, necessary for its broken rendering engine, alongside it lack of support for really useful features of the XHTML and DOM standards (like responding correctly to a 'false' return from an OnSubmit event, for instance, or supporting CSS's position: fized) mean that having to build for this browser can now bge said to be actively holding up new development.

Those few proprietary extensions that Internet Explorer can claim to itself (like the ability to put graduated shading on submit buttons) are, on the whole, so incredibly naff, or so incredibly insecure, that they really deserve to be consigned to the same bit bucket that ate Netscape 4's scrolling marquee and the blink tags.
Posted by: KSchaefer   Posted on: 09/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Do you have the best browser?  anthonycea | 09/13/04
Indeed I do  zijiang | 09/13/04
ha!  toadlife | 09/13/04
Mozilla Firefox is best and best of all it is FREE(NT)  V Sanders | 09/13/04
Great Browser  Jaschink | 09/13/04
Great Browser  Jaschink | 09/13/04
IE is NOT free. You have to buy a $200 OS to get it.  BitTwiddler | 09/14/04
Great Browser  Jaschink | 09/13/04
My Bad  Jaschink | 09/13/04
IE is not free  V Sanders | 09/13/04
Free?  AbsolutelyNot | 09/14/04
Firfox good...Marketing BAD.  jimk_z | 09/13/04
Mozilla Firefox is the only way to go  V Sanders | 09/13/04
Actually  Michael Kelly | 09/14/04
is there any other way?  V Sanders | 09/14/04
You can Uninstall IE  voska | 09/14/04
funny you mention that  V Sanders | 09/14/04
There might be another way  Michael Kelly | 09/14/04
That would require ActiveX support  BitTwiddler | 09/14/04
Competing against a gray rectangle is easy  KSchaefer | 09/14/04
Not to pick too large a nit, but...  John Le'Brecage | 09/14/04
 d_jedi | 09/14/04
the answer...  ryusen | 09/14/04
You know, I actually liked that article.  php_developer | 09/14/04
It seems like they have much more anti-MS drivel noawadays..  d_jedi | 09/14/04
so anyting that is beter then ms is anti-ms?  V Sanders | 09/14/04
(nt) Umm.. when did I say that?  d_jedi | 09/14/04
The article seems a bit misleading about KDE  Michael Kelly | 09/14/04
Fire Fox is great for those not on XP yet  voska | 09/14/04
Time to celebrate!  CobraA1 | 09/14/04
DO NOT INSTALL THIS YET!!!!  itanalyst | 09/14/04
Incompatibilites with a new version?  d_jedi | 09/14/04
get real, people actually install this on their pc's  V Sanders | 09/14/04
I noticed the same thing  Michael Kelly | 09/14/04
i think a better statement would be,  ryusen | 09/14/04
wouldnt it be nice to have a "clear all"  V Sanders | 09/14/04
Huh?  d_jedi | 09/14/04
do they have a "clear all"  V Sanders | 09/14/04
What about..  d_jedi | 09/14/04
Or this  AbsolutelyNot | 09/14/04
I only used IE  V Sanders | 09/14/04
Firefox is best . . . but  georgep_z | 09/14/04
Call the finacial institute  voska | 09/14/04
nothing to do with the browser really  doh123 | 09/14/04
works fine on banks i use  V Sanders | 09/14/04

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